Lawyer who represented Malcolm X dies aged 89

Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, has died. He was 89. Sutton moved to New York City following his service with the Tuskegee Airmen in the second world war. He earned his law degree in New York while working as a post office clerk and a subway conductor. His Harlem law office, founded in 1953, represented Malcolm X and his family for decades. Sutton retired in 1991 but he continued to work as an adviser, mentor and confidante to politicians and businessmen.